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A mid-19th century watercolour by William Noble Hardwick (1804-1865). William Hardwick was born in London and studied landscape painting under JMW Turner before moving to Bath in 1834. In his early years, he produced countless works of scenes in and around Bath, most of them drawings, some watercolours and a few in oils. Like many of his contemporaries, he used the expanding railway network to visit the wilder parts of Britain and Europe, returning with numerous works of mountains and waterfalls in the romantic style. The Victoria Art Gallery has around 160 works by Hardwick in its collection. ‘Weston near Bath’ was one of several hundred works by locally-based artists given to the Gallery by Bath art dealer, Alfred Jones, soon after it opened in 1900. This watercolour is interesting in being on the cusp of the topographic and the picturesque whilst not sitting in either camp. What, if anything, can we learn from it about this village so close to, but at that time separate from, the city?
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